Author(s): Veríssimo, Lurdes ; Carvalho, M. Carmo ; Guimarães, Margarida Mesquita ; Silva, Isolina Virgínia Pereira da ; Aguiar, Filomena Frazão de ; Caetano, Joaquim António Machado
Date: 2008
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/2811
Origin: Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Subject(s): Prevention; Sex education; Peer education
This article presents the National Peer Education Program, a sex education model which is being implemented by the Fundação Portuguesa A Comunidade Contra a Sida (Portuguese Foundation The Community Against AIDS) in Portuguese schools. Based on the epidemiological data and a review on the theoretical and empirical background to peer education, this text presents and discusses the main stages of intervention, and raises topical and controversial issues in the area of Sex Education, which continue to present a challenge for contemporary Education .
